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Bots Are Hot!
Robot Crafts and Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
By Amy Henry
- Make Robot Music: Create your own techno/electro funk music. Experiment with household appliances, buzzers and beepers to record a soundtrack for your little robot to dance to. She can add her own "beeps."
Robot Reads
Check out these picture books that feature robots as characters:
- The Applebaums Have a Robot (Morrow Junior Books, 1980) by Jane Thayer. A little robot has different ambitions from his bot brothers and sisters and winds up making his parents proud by doing the kind of work he loves.
- Robert and the Robot (Front Street, 2001) by Eva Schwab. Bright illustrations and a story about a boy who can't face cleaning up his room ... until he gets some help from a little robot.
- Benjamin McFadden and Robot Babysitter (Crown Books, 1998) by Timothy Bush. Illustrations to drool over accompany this story about a boy who rewrites his robot babysitter's program so that it's never bedtime, but always time for fun.
- Nova's Ark (Scholastic, 1999) by David Kirk. In this story with illustrations that combine Kirk's art and 3-D computer imaging, children age 4 and up will enjoy a heartwarming tale about a little robot's quest to discover the source of power in the universe, and the loving gift he gives his robot dad.
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